no code implementations • 31 Aug 2023 • Riley Tavassoli, Mani Amani, Reza Akhavian
Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown powerful capabilities in visual question answering and reasoning tasks by combining visual representations with the abstract skill set large language models (LLMs) learn during pretraining.
no code implementations • 28 Aug 2023 • Newsha Emaminejad, Lisa Kath, Reza Akhavian
This study aimed to investigate the key technical and psychological factors that impact the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals' trust in collaborative robots (cobots) powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
no code implementations • 28 Aug 2023 • Newsha Emaminejad, Reza Akhavian, Ph. D
Construction technology researchers and forward-thinking companies are experimenting with collaborative robots (aka cobots), powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to explore various automation scenarios as part of the digital transformation of the industry.
no code implementations • 28 Aug 2023 • Farid Shahnavaz, Riley Tavassoli, Reza Akhavian
Human activity recognition (HAR) using machine learning has shown tremendous promise in detecting construction workers' activities.
no code implementations • 8 Mar 2022 • Newsha Emaminejad, Alexa Maria North, Reza Akhavian
Engendering trust in technically acceptable and psychologically embraceable systems requires domain-specific research to capture unique characteristics of the field of application.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage, Phuong H. D. Nguyen, Mohammad Sadra Rajabi, Reza Akhavian
This paper evaluates the ability of surface electromyogram (EMG)-based systems together with machine learning algorithms to automatically detect body movements that may harm muscles in material handling.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Newsha Emaminejad, Reza Akhavian
As the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics emerge and with their ever-growing socio-economic influence in various fields of research and practice, there is an imminent need to study trust in such systems.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Farid Shahnavaz, Reza Akhavian
A portable emission measurement system (PEMS) was employed along with the inertial sensors to record data including the amount of CO, NOX, CO2, SO2, and CH4 pollutions emitted by the equipment.